Sexual Fantasy Island~A Prude Awakening

In fact, in a recent research study on sex in America, the majority of men and women reported having fantasies while having sex. The Kinsey research concurred with this data and showed even higher percentages during masturbation. In fact, using sexual fantasy as the fuel for early eroticism is for most of us our first sexual act. Boys start having sexual fantasies as early as , for girls, fantasy usually begins later in their teens and early 20s.

Telling our stories is integral to being human, and sexual fantasies transform and inspire during sex. In fact, mounting research suggests that the ability and freedom to entertain fantasies actually increases the health of both sexual arousal and desire. Yet many people feel uncomfortable with the stories that spontaneously occur to them in the course of their sexual adventures. I remember the remarkable passion that emerged in my own sex life when I stopped trying to suppress the stories that emerged during intimacy. Erotica and pornography explore many common fantasy themes of submission, dominance and even forms of pain infliction, which can be both arousing and disturbing at the same time.

Just because you have fantasies about being sexually overpowered or raped does not mean that you actually want to have the experience. Although I often feel like my husband is interacting with me in my fantasies, I rarely ever verbalize my thoughts. For other couples I know, they have elaborate games where they both share and agree to act out their fantasies together. When it comes to a shared fantasy life it is critical to be both conscious and communicative about your comfort level and your boundaries.

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Paperback , pages. Published December 27th by Bantam first published January 1st Martha Blackshear Russell , Theophilus Mirkwood. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Lady Awakened , please sign up. Lists with This Book. Aug 16, Sarah Mac rated it it was ok Shelves: I don't even know. Excuse me while I lick my wounds. I have successfully smothered Feelz since I was a child. Feelz are good for nothing. Feelz have no place in life.

There's a problem with your husband's will. It had better not demand Feelz. No, it's demanding your departure from this house. My marriage sucked from Good grief. My marriage sucked from day one, but I never told anyone. What the hell, sister?! For some bizarre reason, we care about what happens to you. I want my independence. Did you know women can better themselves through education?

If you had an heir, you could stay. But my husband was impotent. Have a nice day. I can't have a nice day. I devote my energy to emotionally distancing myself from life's hideous Feelz. I am sending really obvious signals that I'd marry you if you weren't in mourning. I can't acknowledge those signals. I can't show Feelz.

How can I circumvent this inconvenience? Your new neighbor is a beta woobie-rake. If this guy knocked me up, I could claim the baby is my dead husband's heir. It's a perfect solution! You're my new neighbor.

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You're sleeping in church. You offend me with your Feelz. I'll pay you to have sex with me every day for a month. If you get me pregnant, I'll pay you extra. Mrs Robinson, are you trying to seduce me? I'm barely 21 years old. And seduction is for Feelz, which I don't have. But don't you want to get to know me first?

I don't care so long as you're free of STDs. I don't care about caresses. Foreplay is for pansies. But don't you want me to make you feel nice while we're having sex? I don't care about feeling nice. Feeling nice is unacceptable. I don't understand why you're determined to hate my cock after you paid to use it.

And I don't understand why men are so lame. Men don't acknowledge that women have Feelz! They don't get to know us before sticking their peens between our legs! They don't try to learn what we like! They don't care about making us feel nice while we're being forced to have sex! You're an odd woman. Is my attitude preventing you from getting a proper erection? You'll have to enjoy yourself to get my all-important juices flowing.

I refuse to like sex. Sex is the devil's road to Feelz. What the fuck is wrong with you? I refuse to talk about having Feelz. I have Feelz too! I have mommy issues. That's because you haven't invested yourself in bettering society. Have I told you about my reform school? It's hot when you're an anachronistic feminist. Let me kiss your boob or something. Forget touching my boob. I'll never enjoy sex, so stop trying.

It's giving me Feelz. I'm only giving you Feelz because you're giving me Feelz. Let me tell you how I was emotionally affected by visiting my poorest tenants this afternoon. The plight of the children is horrible. I want them to attend school regularly. At which point I reached page Two stars because there were some pretty sentences. But I won't be trying any more of this author unless she dials down the pointless, plotless angst.

View all 49 comments. Dec 29, Jill rated it it was amazing Shelves: My concern is only with the issue. I have no expectation of pleasure. Without an heir her estate will be given over to her late husband's brother, a man whose past crimes against servants has gone unpunished but not fo 4. Without an heir her estate will be given over to her late husband's brother, a man whose past crimes against servants has gone unpunished but not forgotten. To protect herself, her servants and tenants Martha knows that she must produce an heir and quickly.

Theo Mirkwood has been banished to his family's country property in Sussex adjoining Martha's land. For twenty-six year old Theo his wasteful and irresponsible ways have become too much for his father. He is sent to Sussex in hopes that learning the management of the estate will change him for the better. Theo and Martha's relationship drives this story. There are other happenings that involve secondary characters - their tenants, their servants, and the evil brother who is waiting impatiently in the wings to inherit Martha's home.

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But they play a minor role to the overall love story. This is a romance of opposites. Theo is city-bred, wasteful, spoiled, irresponsible, indolent and easy-going. Martha is countrified, responsible, practical, upright and uptight. From acquaintances to friends to lovers, the shift in the dynamic of their relationship evolves gently.

Almost day-by-day we see subtle changes in their arrangement. Some readers may have a problem with the subdued pacing but it's necessary so that we see their relationship develop and blossom realistically. The author has done a thorough job in researching the historical details giving a credible setting to this romance in bucolic Regency Britain. She portrays the life of the lower classes with stark reality. Written in beautiful prose this slowly simmering romance is deeply satisfying, thoroughly enjoyable.

The love scenes depict their growing relationship, developing sensually as their relationship moves from a business arrangement to love. Cecilia Grant has written a lovely romance and an impressive debut. Her eyes flew open. I promise we'll fornicate face-to-face like Christians. View all 64 comments. Nov 18, Jane Stewart rated it it was ok Shelves: My mind kept wandering.

It did not hold my interest. I did not enjoy the rigid heroine with no emotional interactions. Martha did not marry for love. She married to avoid being dependent on her brother. Her husband died ten months later from a horse accident. She learns that her brother-in-law James will inherit the estate and that he molested female servants when he lived there 16 years ago. She believes it is her duty to keep James away from the estate in order to protect the female My mind kept wandering. She believes it is her duty to keep James away from the estate in order to protect the female workers.

She also believes it is her duty to improve the lives of all tenants and workers in the area. She financed a local school and is lobbying the families to send their daughters. In order to keep James away, she must get pregnant within the next 30 days and claim that the pregnancy is by her husband. She hires her neighbor Theo to have sex with her every day for 30 days. Each time they have sex, she refuses to show emotion and refuses to experience pleasure.

She demands he perform as quickly as possible while she lies stiff as a board like a corpse. Talk about boring sex scenes. Can you just get on with it please? My mind rules my body. She is uptight, rigid, critical, judgmental, pious, and holier-than-thou. The only thing she cares about is her sense of duty to do good. If she remained at Seton Park, the days and years ahead could be gratifying indeed. When she has a loss, she does not cry. When she eventually falls in love, it feels wooden. Maybe some vulnerability might have helped. I welcome unusual and different character creations from authors, but I need to be able to enjoy reading about them, be they good or wicked.

Martha was not fun to read about, and that is the biggest problem. Theo was interesting enough. He had a good heart. He was rich kid enjoying his life of wine, women, and gambling. His father sent him to the country for a while in hopes of providing some seriousness to his life.

Of course, living next door to serious Martha definitely brought out that part of Theo. Maybe if she had shown some emotional desire for him I would have liked it better. One of my pet peeves is having a character deny their feelings and take actions against those feelings. This is usually done in order to have a conflict. She has none and never will. She eventually falls in love with Theo, so we are told. But after that the sex scenes were still missing sensuality and hotness. Number of sex scenes: Estimated number of sex scene pages: View all 22 comments.

I closed the book with a deeply satisfied sigh, but at first I totally disliked the heroine. It's not to everyone's taste. A Lady Awakened is book 1 of the Blackshear Family series. The writing style is witty and light I chuckled several times , balanced by sad, painful, or poignant sections. The plot includes several heartwarming story lines. The romance includes a LOT of sex, progressing from cold, quick sex to blast-furnace love scenes.

He might have gone his whole life without finding this out, if he'd never been exiled to Sussex. The author did not capture the pastoral setting -- she's not particularly descriptive or vivid, but it's fine. The author does a magnificent job showing the metamorphosis of Martha, from a passionless prude to a passionate lover.

She is attractive, with shining chocolate brown eyes and long, honey-colored hair but Grant does not belabor her physical traits like some authors do. Russell is only 21, newly widowed after 10 months of marriage. Theophilis Mirkwood Theo is heir to a baronetcy, sexy as they come and 26 years old. He is tall and well formed, with dark blue eyes and pale golden hair. This London playboy has been banished to Pencarragh, one of his father's estates, to learn agriculture and farm management from Mr.

I loved Grant's development of Theo's character, from carefree playboy to beloved champion of laborers and tenants. Martha pays Theo to "give her his seed" -- every day for a month, starting right now, if you please. Martha thinks that if she responds or derives any pleasure whatsoever from the "act" it will make her a whore, so she keeps "duty" forefront. Theo employs every means to kindle Martha's desire, but the task "was proving to be a labor worthy of Hercules. I was disgusted wtih Martha, yet sympathetic to her dilemma; it felt authentic for the period. Theo soon stops trying to awaken any responses in Martha and simply mates with her, working on the "heir" project.

But meanwhile, a beautiful friendship develops around Theo's varied plans to help his impoverished tenants and laborers -- plans that Martha fully endorses. The pacing dragged a little at one point, and I grew tired of sex served cold, so this is a flaw. However, there were other absorbing story lines that held my interest when I grew irritated with puritanical Martha. Often at his side, she sees him striding through rural Sussex, bringing hope and support to poverty-stricken laborers, teaching a mentally-impaired girl how to make a paper fan, re-thatching roofs, supporting a new school, and creating a new economy.

It takes a while for Martha to realize she's in love with Theo, but after seeing him carry a dying man nearly a mile, she's a goner: To a stunned and star-struck Martha, he'd never looked so powerful. So suffused with grace and might. Theo finally got the passion he wanted from Martha.

Once Martha knew Theo's heart, she gave herself totally to him, like a wild woman the scene in the chair! These guys burned up the sheets. He scrabbled at the knots. This was your idea. You've no one to blame but yourself. She was enjoying this What Martha loved best was that Theo valued her opinion, and sincerely cared about his people. One night, while brainstorming how to improve the local economy, Martha muses: Serious, conscientious, and seeking her opinion: Late at night, Theo tentatively broaches the idea of gaining investors for his dairy scheme. Martha, being detail oriented, readily endorses his preliminary idea and offers several strategic tips.

Theo -- no dummy -- realizes her worth: He could go through life forging one nebulous idea after the next, and know that she would hammer each one into practical shape. I thought it perfect, this relationship that began so badly. They complemented each other. Martha's prudent attention to detail only magnified Theo's natural aptitude for visionary leadership. He showed her that she was respected, admired, and surrounded by allies.

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Grant kept me up till 3am, blinking tears away. There's another storyline here. A heartwarming drama unfolds where Theo's underprivileged tenants and Martha's household servants gain a new sense of unity and pride. I loved the secondary characters, especially old Mr. Barrows, the laborer's wife, Mrs. Weaver Olivia and the abigail, Sheridan odd names for servants. The details surrounded Mrs. Weaver were particularly well done. I also liked the vicar, Mr. And how original, to cast a man of the cloth in a positive light. Wondering if they had a baby together? It's best to wait, but if you must know, see the spoiler: She figured out another way to thwart the soul-less heir to Seton Park.

These poignant scenes showed how far the cold fish had come. Numerous explicit sex scenes, including oral sex, some F-bombs, a few instances of religious profanity. Just enough strong language to lend realism, but not enough to seem gratuitous or irritating. I noted only one or two typos. View all 25 comments. Mar 24, Wollstonecrafthomegirl rated it it was amazing Shelves: In my idle hours, and in my less idle ones, I spend more time than is reasonable pondering the following questions: If I was sent to a desert island and could only take one with me, which would it be?

The answer usually changes with my mood. Because, to me, it is perfection. When people roll their eyes on finding out I read romance and are all: I read it for the first time back in when I first started reading romance and long before I discovered goodreads in any significant way. I will now attempt to review this book in a way that does some semblance of justice to just how much I love it and to just how good it is. This seems a bit over the top when written down in this simple way. But Grant makes it work with magic words and magic characters. And, oh, what characters.

Muscles and so forth. The juxtaposition is amazing. This is a novel which does character growth like no other. Martha remains quintessentially the same person throughout, but slowly, like a flower opening to sunlight, our hero, Theo gets into her mind and then into her heart because, with Martha, ever practical woman that she is, you cannot get into the latter without finding your way into the former. The proposition from Martha that they have sex and he gets to make money from it is snapped up by him with very little thought. A month ago, his cravat was sacrosanct. At first, Theo is everything Martha dislikes: I should never have guessed it.

Then there's the sex. Oh, my, the sex. Martha hates being in bed with Theo at first she wants to get her seed and get out. As she comes to like him, then respect him, then love him, the sex gets good. Theo learns the merit of having to work to get a woman to enjoy herself and introducing Martha to the wonders of sex with someone you like and who likes you in return: Grant achieves the story and the characters and the romance with a command of language and imagery which drives me mad with jealousy.

She wanted a discerning lover. One who saw all her sensual promise. One who knew how to tease out the voluptuousness from an understated form. Time might stop all round them and here he would be, washed with the music of soft feminine modulations, working away in the pleasure of unspoken companionship. Why she should have confidence that his project must be worthy of her own industry, he could not fathom.

I have half the book highlighted on my Kindle. I would not change any part of it and I look forward to re-reading it periodically for the rest of my days. Sep 02, willaful rated it really liked it Shelves: Reading this made me realize that one of my favorite things to happen in a historical romance is for the main characters to be forced together in an unusual way that unexpectedly fosters true intimacy. In A Lady Awakened , what initially brings Theo and Martha together is sex -- unwanted, unpleasant sex.

Theo, at first happy to oblige, soon finds that servicing a woman who is disgusted by his best efforts is deeply disheartening. Well, while Martha and Theo are meeting each other secretly for sex, they are also slowly getting to know each other. A Lady Awakened initially seemed a slightly misleading title, because Martha is not a stranger to either sexual desire or sexual pleasure, on her own. She pressed her lips together. Generosity demanded generosity in return. He was all but a virgin in this, the experience of being taken seriously.

Perhaps no woman--no one at all--had ever gazed at him with quiet faith and encouraged him to believe in his own abilities. Martha, who needs so much to be taken seriously by men herself, discovering that this is something she can give to a man, who needs it as much as she does. This is a leisurely told story, with more information about daily estate life than is currently popular in historical romance, but I never found it boring. View all 9 comments. I don't think I've ever read a romance novel like this, which should be a recommendation in itself, seeing as so many of them follow one of the "standard" plots.

The gradual falling in love bit DOES happen, but it's done in such an original manner. The heroine is a widow who wants desperately to remain in I don't think I've ever read a romance novel like this, which should be a recommendation in itself, seeing as so many of them follow one of the "standard" plots.

The heroine is a widow who wants desperately to remain in her marital home - but her desire to do so stems from her sense of obligation to the local community rather than from any selfish desire to keep a roof over her head. What I liked so much about this book was the way in which the two central characters, come together through a shared sense of community and duty. It's not a traditional seduction and there are no mind-blowing first-time orgasms - in fact, the sex is initially perfunctory and not at all sexy, which is rather a refreshing change from the majority of the romantic novels published nowadays.

This book is warm, and funny and also manages to include social observation through the ways in which the protagonists interact with their tennants and workers. It's romantic of course and funny and tender and altogether a fabulous read.

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Sexual Fantasy Island~A Prude Awakening

I've been hearing this author mentioned a lot lately, and now I know why. This historical romance is easily on par with some of the best authors of this genre - Balogh, Quinn, Kleypas I think the one thing I enjoyed most about this story is how I got to see the romance evolve from a cold and simple business association to a deeply warm and passionate friendship all the way to a heart stopping love.

Both characters evolve emotionally as well, when they realize the circumstances of whic 4. Both characters evolve emotionally as well, when they realize the circumstances of which they created may not have the intended outcome.